Not Islamic?

Submitted by Éamonn Gavin (Ireland), Sep 11, 2014 at 09:13

It is interesting that the media (and the President!!) virtually all go out of their way to make excuses for Islam by saying that any bad deeds (even when committed in the name of Islam) are "un-Islamic". This bias is magnified many times over by not making the same allowances for other religions and/or authorities.

For example, the whole of the Catholic church (my own church) has been called "evil" because of the evil behaviour of some of its members. This is notwithstanding the fact that, whereas any evil misdeeds committed by members of the Catholic church are most certainly not committed in its name, the evil committed by the "Islamic State" and Al Quaeda and other Islamist terror groups is done 100% in the name and furtherance of Islam.

Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland

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